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The Press., 1887-08-25
Mexican War Veteran.

The wonderful efncacy Of swifts Specific aa a remedy and cure for rheumatlsm md ni blood dis eases, has never had more p.cuous illustration than this case ayordS Tho candid, unsolicited and emphatic testbnosy glgen b. tIo venerable gentle. man must bo accepted convincing and conclusive. The writor Is prominent oItzon of MinpinaippI The gentleman towhom Mr. Martin refers. and Co whom he is indebted for tho advice to which ho owes hh final relief from years Of suffering is Mir King. for many years the popular nlht clerk of tho Lawrence House, at Jackson.
 JACKSON, MsS, April 2s. 1887. TIE SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY, Atlanta. Ga
 Genfiemcn-i hnvo been invalid pensloner for forty years, having contracted pulmonary and other diseases in tho Mexican War; but net ti tbo lat of March, iS15, did feel any symptoms uf rheumntispn On that day was kEGaoGly stricken with that dia ease in both hil,s and ankles. Tor twenty days I walked on crutches. Then the pain was less yioleuA but lt shiftse G j"igt 10 joint E9r esa would the other: The lain hovcr let me n moment for Is,e. when Mas Tt attacked, 70 ootober l, lss6 tense suffering i tried ihnnnsrsGle pEescriptions From various physclaus, aud tried syorythinK suG- benent from any medicine iafon Internally or sS. ternslly I am not aware of e. Finally, about thc Hot Springs of Aiilnis.s. EayHa dosparod of every nG5 tiG TGA f S% pS T s Ss Ss fla ss Of this city. llg had once been ngrcat sufferer from rheumatism, and az | auI Oacd, had been cured hy n yis.t l9 Hot stgstr Hut when met him he he found no ref On llG ctuf1l from Hot RpTinga ho heard fi h. rgt tino. Of tho G. B S as a rtmedy for rheumaiisnl Ia trci it and six bottles made complete euic horeral years have passed since, but he has had no return of thc dscnne.
 ltmmediaic ely ietdrnCd tO try it, Tn September took four bbttlCa, and by tla first of october was well.as Tar aS the iligumutl m was concerned. All pain had disappeared, and nAyK NOT FELT A rwINaM sTNcE.
 Ihnve no interest in making this statement other than the hope that it may direct other suerer to sure source or rNlVf, aud if 10 has this result am well rewarded fer my trouble. | am Very ro- spectfally and truly your friend.
 J. M. H. MAnrn. For salc by nll druggists. Trontlso on Blood and skin DlseasoB mailed free.
 TuE swTr SPECIFIC Co.,,
 Drawer & Atlanta Gs
The Press., 1887-08-25
Sarah Bernhardt,s Month.

Bernhardt has naturally an ugly mouth, large and with thin, pallid, formless lips. To rectify this she begins on the lower lip, paints thin red line from the corner, widening it toward the middle and curv- ing again into the other corner. This makes the mouth look much smaller and the upper lip full and rosier. The upper lip is treated in the. same way, only she makes two sharp curves on each side off the center, which gives the proper Cupid's bow shape. The result is that her rosy mouth is reduced in apparent size, and looks like the brides whose Clips were red, and one was thin" and she looks five years younger than she does without this little adventitious aid to her beauty New York World.
The Press., 1887-08-25
It were better to have conquered one true heart than England.
UNLOADING A BANANA VESSEL

A Motley Lot of JabDering. Perspiring
 Dealers-Grades of Fruit.
 Forty years ago scarcely bunch of bananas came to New York by vessel. Until ten years ago they were brought here only in little brigs and schooners. Now they come in great ocean steamers only. The larger quantity is received be- tween May and September, but through out the year the arrival of banana laden steamers will average four each week, or say 200 per year. An average cargo is S0, 600 punches, and the punches will each average 200 separate pieces of fruit. But here was the Amicitia, from Baracoa, Cuba. and 200 Osweltering, half mad Italian
The Press., 1887-08-25
TO, CONSUMPTIYES.

The undersigned having been re- stored to health by simple means, after suffering for several years with a severe lung affection, and that dread disease ! COnSumpti0nsis anxious to make known to his fellow sufferers the means of cure. To those who desire it, he will cheerfully send Qree of charge) 8 copy of the prescription used, which they will find a sure cure for Consumption all throat and lung Maladies. He hopes all sufferers will try his Remedy, as it is invaluable. Those desiring the prescription, which will cost them noth- ing, and may prove a blessing, will please address, REV. EDWARD A. WIL- SON, WilliamsbuETa Kings County,
 New York. e.
The Press., 1887-08-25

DRUNKENNEss OR THE LIQUOR HABIT PosI- TIMELY CURED BY ADMINISTERING DR. HAYNES GOLDEN SPECIFIC. It can be given in 8 cup- of coffee or tea without the knowledge of the person taking it is absolutely harmless, and will affect permanent and speedy cure, whether the patient is moderate drinker or an alcoholic wreck. Thousands of drunkards have been made temperate men who have taken Golden Specific in their coffee without their knowledge, and to-day believe they quit drinking of their own free will. IT NEVER FAILS. The system once impregnated with the Specific it becomes an utter impossibility for the liquor appetite to exist. For full par ticulars address GOLDEN SPECIFIC Co.,, 1855 Race-st., Cincinnati, O, ..
The Press., 1887-08-25
T hat ceiling

Of exhaustion expressed in tho words 'sall run down. indicates thin and depraved state of the blood. reacting upon the Nervous System. Nothing will reach this trouble with more speed and certainty than Ayer'sS Sarsaparilla.
 "Is was all run down, " writes Mrs. Alice West, of Jefferson, w. Va, 'tbe- fore beganto take Ayers Sarsaparilla, and now am
 GAINING IN STRENGTH every day. I intend using it till my health is perfectly restored"
 Being very weak and Respondent after an illness which cansed frequent loss of blood, I tried Ayers Sarsaparilla, and two bottles have restored me to my former health," writes Miss Blanche $. Brownell, Boylston Place, Boston.
 ,Ayerss SarsapariIIa, Prepared by Dr. J. c. Aver & Co.,, Lowell, Mass. Sold by All Druggists. Price $1; six bottles, $5. j
The Press., 1887-08-25
LUXURY IN DESIGNS.

The days when the Confederate armies could afford such luxury in ensigns quickly passed away, however, as is evil denced by the collection, representing every period of the war. In the begin ming of the civil war the design of the flag carried by the southern regiments was that of the Stars and Bars-two red bars and one white-changing at later period to red field with the Southern Cross, re- sembling the British Union Jack. A study of the record kept by the war de- pertinent of the name and capture of each of these flags, though a work of days, would be of intense interest to the veteran soldier. It would recall to him the epi- sodes of triumph on half the fields of the civil war. The sight of the flags them selves would do something more-Quick- ening his gheart beats with memories of the great fight. That not 8 few of these Standardss have been the centers of deadly personal encounter is evident from the numerous blood stains still traceab1e upon them. The slaves, also, of many of them are ragged with the gnaw of bullets, the 'lead in some instances piercing their cen ters and remaining imbedded in the wood. Everything, in fact, in the appearance of the whole collection, as it is piled here in the narrow garret, faded and soiled and tattered, shows that these are no banners Ofholiday parade, but have passed through the fire and extremity of actual war-the sOrrowful weeds blasted and fallen from .Gs wrath. For myself, not soldier, but a resident of Washington during the war period, recalled the stirring incidents of their presentation to the war department as they were brought straight from the fields of their capture.
 On one of these occasions thirty of these standards, as I remember, were carried here two days after the fight at Winches- ter by a delegation of soldiers whose hands had actually seized them in the fight, Custer with his long, yellow hair, at their head. Stanton, the grim secretary, un- bent. Stanton loved results, and these were the palpable evidences of triumph. Coming out of the lions den of his office he took each soldier by the hand and well comed them as a body with a speech. As the little group stood before his door listening to his address, the captured
 tandarls held above their heads in the narrow hall of the old war department made n picturesque cloud of color, which, together with the entire scene, it was not easy to forget. When the affair was over the soldiers started again for the field, and Stanton, taking Custer's arm, walked slowly down. the steps of the war office. Such was his habit with any of the brill iRrt leaders of the war after visit to his department. a- William Jackson Arm strong in Now York World.
The Press., 1887-08-25

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The Press., 1887-08-25
TROPHIES OF THE WAR.
A GLANCE AT THE CAPTURED CON-
 FEDERATE FLAGS.

Story Told by the Emb1ems of q Lost
 Cause-Banners of Silk and Banners
 of Tatters-How tho Flags Are Kept.
 Carried by an elevator five stories up, under the roof of the war department, almost burning in this Washington sum- mer weather, the key being turned by my guide in the door of an attic room, stood an instant later in little space hardly more than ten feet square, nearly within reaching distance on all sides of these bat tered momentos of the war, the very men, tion of which has set afire the hearts of O,OO0, 900 of people-a few rags saturated with the explosive wash of patriotism But the first thought on seeing them in this pent up space of attic is of the small ness of the cause to the size of the effect The flags heaped about the room appear at first sight only Q handful at the most but counted separately there are 750 in all, over 500 of them being Confederate and the remainder Federal flags recaptured from their captors. One half of the entire number are attached to their slaves as they were originally taken, the flags of the two sections being stacked in separate masses against two sides of the room, facing the other half folded and protrud- ing from pigeon holes on the opposite walls Thessight of the Stars and Stripes keeps always familiar. But the first look at the dark red heap of the banners of the rebel lion, piled here against the side of the at tic, blots out twenty-five years from the memory and brings back as if it were yesterday the red years when they waved at the head of their regiments. There is hardly Q flag among them all that has not it's history recorded in the book in the hands of the keeper of the room. All nearly are riddled with bullets, and many, like those carried through such battles as the Wilderness and the second Bull Run, were shot literally into tatters and almost unrecognizable sprays of rag.
The Press., 1887-08-25

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The Press., 1887-08-25
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The Press., 1887-08-25

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The Press., 1887-08-25

The commission on the Asylum street crossing have decided that Hartford must pay half the cost of destroying the old Union depot. If that ruling is right, then Hartford ought to pay half the expense of building the new one. The truth is, ihHt this city ought to pay no part of the ex- pense of these changes now under way. The railroad interests should be made io pay the cost of making their entrance 'tu Hartford safe and decent one. Iu other cities the railroad companies are only too glad to get the privilege of entering-as in Philadelphia, New York, Rochester, etc. |, where they were not only ready to pay the entire cost of the work, but were glad of the privilege of getting in. But here well, Hartford gdVe to the United States Government the beautiful State House lawn on which the post-ofice building stands, and Hartford is paying half of the expense of the extensive changes on Asy- lum and Church streets which are tiually ordered (after long years of danger and of effort on the part of the city) for the pur- pose of making the railway approaches safe. It was certainly very liberal. No other city would have done it. -Hdrtford Times.
 That IS one side of the question, Mir. Times. Look at the other. When the the railroad was built the city extended along the river front. The railroad came to the back door of the city, occupied lands of little value with its depot. Its coming has built up that part of the city, and made real estate in its vicinity reach an apprais- ial that would have seemed incredible. Had it sought to enter the business part of the city there would have been justice in making it pay roundly for the privilege. Had 1t never come there would today have been very little travel over the place where its tracks now lie, and if one wanted to buy land there he could do so at a low price. The railroad had drawn business around its depot and made land valuable there. Now the outcry is against the rail road crossing and depot as a detriment to the city Changes and improvements must be made, and the railroad must make them, must pay for the land needed at the increased prices created by it's own being, and must be thankful that 1t is allowed to stay and not warned away from land that has become too valuable for its occupation.
 The attendant who passed around the cigars after the lunch at Hale Brothers Tuesday, declared that he never saw such a crowd. Only two of the hundred oi more men present responded to the invita- tion, and he declared the outlook very un satisfactory to such tobacco growing reg ion. Does anybody know a prominen fruit grower in Connecticut who isn't staunch friend of temperance, and witl small sympathy for the minor vices whicl so often attend the use of intoxicating liq uorp Is thls matter of cause and effect or is it a mere accident Does the victim of the depraved alcoholic appetite hay, any genuine and hearty liking for choict fruit or does one of these drive out and ex clude the other It is an interesting auC possibly a not uuimportant question. - | Conn Fd7,7ller
The Press., 1887-08-25

Mrs. Al wish I knew what 10 dc when my husband comes home tight.
 Mrs. B.-I have adopted a plan that has almost cured my husband.
 "What is it ?''
 ''You know the boozy fellows pull them selves upstairs by the banister? ?"
 "Just so. Do you take away the banis- ter 2"
 "Well. not precisely, but you came very near guessing it. As soon as he starts out for the lodge, grease the bauisters, and when he tries to pull himself up by it his hands slip, and he keeps on going and go- ing and never gets anywhere, like horse on threshing machine. If you want to be amused, grease the banister and watch the poor fellow try to pull himself up- stairs. After while he will get tired of coming home tight"
The Press., 1887-08-25

No Woman is beautiful with bad skin, covered with pimples, freckles, moth or tan. have been asked many times what will re- move these unsightly blemishes. No face paints or powders will remove them, as they are caused by impure blood. The only sure remedy have ever seen is Sulphur Bitters, and in hundreds of cases have never known them to fail.-Rditress Fashion Gazette.
The Press., 1887-08-25

Fourteen of the twenty five aldermen of New York nty are saloon keepers.
The Press., 1887-08-25

GIVE THEM CHANCE That is to say, your lungs. Also all your breathing machinery. Very wonderful machinery it is. Not only little tubes and cavities leading from them.
 When these are clogged and choked with matter which ought not to be there, your lungs cannot half do their work. And what they do, they cannot do we'll.
 Call it cold, cough, croup, pneumonia, ca- tarrh, consumption or any of the family of throat and nose and head and lung obstruct- ions, all are bad. All ought to be got rid of. There is just one sure way to get rid of them. That is to take Boschee's German Syrup, which any druggist will sell you at 75 cents a bottle. Even if everything else has failed you, you may depend upon this for certain.
 The'wallxing delegate" is so called because he always rides.
The Press., 1887-08-25
A SIGNIFICANT CoNTRAsr,

A SIGNIFICANT CONTRAST.
 The contrast in the appearance of the southern and Union standards is signifl- cant of the history of the war. The latter are rigged on clean, polished poles and are of firm, rich material many of them of silk, showing an abundance in the north of the fabrics of which they contin- ued to be made. The majority of the Confederate flags are of the wretchedest shoddy bunting, miserable in color as in substance, while great numbers of them are mounted on rude, unbarked gads and saplings, hastily cut from the woods on the march-recallfng the blockade and the pinching days when war had fallen on 8 section without manufactures, and the intense, desperate purpose of 8 people. for got seemliness and absorbed every thought but the winning of their fight.
 Many of the flags lying folded in the boxes and taken out to be exhibited by the guardian of the room recall still more wildly the narrow straits of rebellion on its last legs, being literally independent of discrimination in color and made of patches from womens dresses and under skirts of nearly every hue and material pitiful reminders of the Spartan poverty and courage that were still to fail of their end. There aresome exceptions, however, in this storeroom of battle trophies, to these smomentos of the sterner days of the war for the south. The attendant drew from the pigeon holes on the walls and unfolded for my inspection three or four magni cent banners of heavy silk, fringed with tassels of gold and ornamented with pictures in oil and rich embroiderings on 8 field of blue. These flags represent the early and halcyon days of the lost cause, when they were made by local associa- tiOnS of ladies and presented to the mili- tary organizations which carried them. One of those flags belonged to the Appa- lachicola guard, whose name is stitched in gold letters on its fold above the ex- ultant notices: "In God is Our Trustp "Our Rights We Will Maintain!'' The finest of them all is the banner ttpresented by the ladies of Norfolk to the Norfolk Light artillery" with an oil portrait ot Washington in the center of it's field, the notices on the reverse side being the same as those of the flag just described.
The Press., 1887-08-25

Why man boots his dog, but merely shoes his hen, has never been precisely determined.
The Press., 1887-08-25

For salc by nl druggists Treatise on Blood ana Skin DlgeasoB mailed frco.
 TnE SWIFT SPECIFIC O.,
 Drawer & Atlanta. as
The Press., 1887-08-25
EXHAUSTED VITALITY

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The Press., 1887-08-25

The ''walking delegate" is so called because he always rides.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-11
O
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. QUINN MAKES THINGS HOT In the Knights of Labor '' Convention. AN ELECTRIC STREET CAR Tweny-Two Lives Lost by
 Drowning. THE LILA H0YLE MYSTERY. A Crisis in the Tory
 Cabinet.
THE xnreHrs INAFURoRE.

Delegate Quinn Throws a Ffrebrand
 Into the Convention n in the Shape of a
 Resolution of Sympathy for the Am
 arch1sts.
 MINNEAPOLIS, Oct 10.-The iveliest ses- sion of the K of L. assembly was held this afternoon. James E. Quinn of D. A. Az, New York, the famous 'skicker" and Home club man, presented the following resolution under a suspension of the rules:
 Considering that the development of the human mind in the nineteenth century has reached a point expressed almost universally against capital pun as a relic of barbarism. therefore be it
 Resolved That this convention express sorrow that the men in Chicago were doomed to death ana that it use every endeavor to secure the commuta' ton of the sentence of death passed upon them.
 The resolution no sooner read than every delegate in the hall was on his feet. General Master Workman Powderly decided the resolution out of order. Joseph Evans, of Pittsburg, appealed from the decision. The appeal was lost by vote of 151 to 52. Before the appeal was taken MT. Powderly called General Worthy Foreman GriHths, of Chicago, to the chair and in a short but vehement speech called upon the con- vention to defeat the resolution saying no true Knight could be an anarchist. He appealed to the delegates in impassioned words not to prevent the purposes of the order by the passage of any such resolutions. It was the hottest speech Powderly was ever known to make Quinn, who offered the resolution, voted aye on the appeal in order to move 8 reconsideration. T. H. Lacory, of Pennsyl- vania, made Q burning speech and at 3:3O the convention was in a perfect pandemo- nium, the shouts being heard for some dis. tance from the hall. The session closed at 6 o'clock and all the delegates are close mouth ed ahout if